The Collapse Of Branook

Ben and Gregory came back from Branook expecting normal. The village looked exactly the same. That was the first sign something was wrong.Dove Holes is quiet. Too quiet. The people Ben and Gregory grew up with are still going through the motions — answering questions, making tea, standing at windows staring at walls. But there's a half-second delay behind their eyes. A beat of translation where a person used to be.Something followed them home from the other side of the Vein. It doesn't announce itself. It doesn't make monsters. It runs through the connections between people — the families, the friendships, the small acts of knowing someone for years — and it started three days before they came home.They have eight days. Eight days to understand what it is, find who's still themselves, and end it before the village is gone in every way that matters.The cost of ending it is something Ben hasn't let himself think about yet.Gregory has.Collapse of Branook is the second book in The Vein Between Worlds series — a dark fantasy set in the real villages of the Derbyshire Peak District, where two best friends navigate the space between worlds, and the far more difficult space between who they were and what they're becoming.Atmospheric. Quietly devastating. Impossible to put down. Read more